Acknowledgement Letter - FSW

[Heritz]

Hello everybody,

I've been keeping an eye on this forum for about a year and it actually helped me a lot figuring out how to submit my documentation for Federal Skilled Worker to Sydney and all the related stuff. I thank all the people that actually collaborate to keep this community up and running.

However, I am a bit worried now and so far I haven't found here help in this particular matter:

I submitted my application by mid July 2009, my post company said the package was delivered on July 19th 2009. As far as I know, and according to the processing times in the CIC website, they take approximately 5 months to review the application and send the acknowledgement letter.

It has been 6 months and I have not received anything. I know it's early, but looking in some blogs and forums, some people say they have received their letter no more than 2 months after they submitted it.

I've been checking my email daily, even the spam folder, nothing yet. Not regular mail either.

Does anyone know if they are taking a bit longer to process the apps? what should I do, just wait or should I call them and ask about the status?

Thank you all for your help!

 

[bennyameh]

Your case is unusual .It normally take 60-70days to get responses from CIO.
Pls confirm when your bank draft or credit card has been cashed.
Benny

 

[Heritz]

Your case is unusual .It normally take 60-70days to get responses from CIO.
Pls confirm when your bank draft or credit card has been cashed.
Benny

Ok I just emailed my bank agent but it might take a while to get a response about when the bank draft was cashed.

What if I call the CIC? Would you recommend it?

 

[jnathan]

Yes, As Benny said. Thats the best way to know if your app to CIO has been accepted is to check if your demand draft(payment) has been cashed. I learnet this technique from this forum. you did right, wait for your bank agent to reply to your query. let us know.

 

[hellovn]

In my case, I didn't hear anything from Sydney for three months because one of my neighbor got my returned application.

 

[jnathan]

your neighbor got your returned application?

What did you mean by that? your application was returned under which condition?
Let us know the reason(s).

 

[Naavy100]

your neighbor got your returned application?

What did you mean by that? your application was returned under which condition?
Let us know the reason(s).

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his neighbor may have received because of postman s mistake

 

[bennyameh]

Full application is normally returned if payment made is not proper or the forms was not filled properly.
Benny

 

[Heritz]

Your case is unusual .It normally take 60-70days to get responses from CIO.
Pls confirm when your bank draft or credit card has been cashed.
Benny

Guys, I got response from my bank. This is what my agent said:

"The draft still appears as -outstanding- so it means they haven't cashed it yet".

So, if they haven't cashed it, what happened? I mean, I have the delivery confirmation from my post company, so the package was DELIVERED correctly.

Any clues?

 

[bennyameh]

You need to check your postal address to be sure that no such package was received.
Benny

 

[Heritz]

You need to check your postal address to be sure that no such package was received.
Benny

Since CIO sends all the packages using public post services, I called my public national post company which manages all the packages coming from public couriers. They can't give me any status on any packages if I don't have the tracking number.

So, what else can I do? There is no email address in the CIC website to contact them, and without any identification number I can't use the call centre.

I am really frustrated about this and I don't know what else to do. I ran out of options. I would really appreciate any other suggestion or comment. :-\

 

[sterion75]

I would call them anyway

Do you have the original tracking info?

 

[Heritz]

I would call them anyway

Do you have the original tracking info?

Thanks for your response. Yeah I have the tracking information I received when I sent the package to Sydney, it says "Successfully delivered".

Well I guess I will try calling them.

 

[sterion75]

I would worst they can say is they can't help

Worst case scenario is cancel the cheque and reapply

 

[Heritz]

I would worst they can say is they can't help

Worst case scenario is cancel the cheque and reapply

Well here is the thing, I tried to call the CAS number which is 1 888 242‑2100. Sometimes I get a machine saying "I am sorry, this number cannot be reached from your local area, please try again". Sometimes I just get a beep, like a missing call.

As far as I know, that's a Canada only number. I dialed 001 888 242-2100 since I am outside Canada.

Is there any other number for people overseas? There is nothing in the CIC website, only local country offices.